Jinsong Su - Machine Translation: 17th China Conference, CCMT 2021, Xining, China, October 8–10, 2021, Revised Selected Papers

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The China Conference on Machine Translation (CCMT) is a national annual academic conference held by the Machine Translation Committee of the Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPSC), which brings together researchers and practitioners in the area of machine translation, providing a forum for those in academia and industry to exchange and promote the latest developments in methodologies, resources, projects, and products, with a special emphasis on the languages in China. Since the first session of CCMT in 2005, 16 sessions have been successfully organized (the previous 14 sessions were called CWMT), and a total of 10 machine translation evaluations (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) have been organized, as well as one open source system module development (2006) and two strategic seminars (2010, 2012). These activities have made a substantial impact on advancing the research and development of machine translation in China. The conference has been a highly productive forum for the progress of this area and is considered a leading and important academic event in the natural language processing field in China.

This year, the 17th CCMT took place in Haidong, Qinghai. This conference continued the tradition of being the most important academic event dedicated to advancing machine translation research in China. It hosted the 11th Machine Translation Evaluation Campaign, featured two keynote speeches delivered by Minlie Huang (Tsinghua University) and Lei Li (University of California), and included two tutorials delivered by Zhongjun He (Baidu) and Liangyou Li (Huawei). The conference also organized five panel discussions, bringing attention to pre-training and machine translation, end-to-end speech translation, the industry of machine translation, the frontier of machine translation, and the forum for PhD students. A total of 85 submissions (including 25 English papers and 60 Chinese papers) were received for the conference. All papers were carefully reviewed in a double-blind manner and each paper was evaluated by at least three members of an international Program Committee. From the submissions, 10 English papers were accepted. These papers address all aspects of machine translation, including improvement of translation models and systems, translation quality estimation, document-level machine translation, low-resource machine translation, etc. We would like to express our thanks to every person and institution involved in the organization of this conference, especially the members of the Program Committee, the machine translation evaluation campaign, the invited speakers, the local organization team, our generous sponsors, and the organizations that supported and promoted the event. Last but not least, we greatly appreciate Springer for publishing the proceedings.